Freeradius service - unexpected restarts

[Alan Buxey]

i' guessing you have a typo in original email as 14.0.4 provides
2.1.12 - however, this is the issue with LTS as they havent upgraded
FR to latest 2.x track (which is now EoL anyway) -  there have been
many bugs and issues fixed since 2.1.12 (yes, Ubuntu may have patched
security issues but are unlikely to have added the fixes and feature
updates...).

you really should be thinking of running 3.0.x  - however, if you want
to stick with 2.x, I would advise that you get the latest 2.2.x
release and follow the Ubuntu/debian build guide to make your own
package.   backup your config files, install that new version (configs
for 2.1.x -> 2.2.x are compatible) .

alan

On 13 October 2017 at 13:49, Peter Hutchison <p.j.hutchison at hud.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Any ideas what cause the freeradius service to stop and restart
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>> repeatedly like this?
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> - do you run latest version of FR (or at least, latest available from your distro)?
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> Yes
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> - does it happen often, or only on that specified time?
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> No it doesn't happen often, only yesterday so far.
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> - does something happen on that time that restart freeradius (e.g.
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> logrotate, apt-get upgrade, or something)?
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> No, all scheduled job run outside normal daytime hours.
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> - does FR access external things (e.g. database)? What is the state of those systems at that time?
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> No, no databases are used.
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>>The usual troubleshooting methods would be 'run freeradius in debug mode and read the logs', but it might not be able to help you much if the problem is due FR being restarted.
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> It would be very hard do to 'read' such logs on a live system with the high number of connections made.
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